Well, I've been a royal slacker when it comes to posting lately. It is my sincere goal to pick up the pace this week!
I did not attend any of the tea parties this week for predominantly practical reasons as I was out-of-town on business. Perhaps that makes me an uncommitted activist (which sounds like a truthful, yet oxymoronic statement), but I am not sure if I would have attended even if I had been in town. Why? I have to admit I became a bit disgruntled by the way that some mediatainment figures and GOPers such as Sean Hannity latched on in association with the event. I respectively leave Glen Beck off the list based on the speech he gave in San Antonio and the generally anti-Washington sentiment (yes, both parties) he has been pushing lately.
The mainstream media has been correct in reporting that the message in the tea parties is inconsistent. But, to me, that is ok. Some are anti-Obama and pro-GOP. Some are anti-tax. Some are pro-Constitution. Some are just plain anti-government. However, from what I saw, they were decidedly not only right-wing propaganda in support of the Republicans. This is why it pained me to see the likes of Hannity involved. But, the reporting which I saw from both MSNBC and CNN was deplorable. It was disgusting, childish, and partisan.
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I have not yet had a chance to read the report from the Department of Homeland Security on right-wing extremists groups. (It is disappointing that I could not find the report on the DHS website.) The Thomas More Law Center has filed suit.
2 comments:
I actually went to one of these and it was overwhelmingly Republican. To be frank, the majority of people who spoke did not seem very well educated.
The main "T.E.A." site to my knowledge, millionteabags.org, is sponsored by "Reagan.org" and "Patriot Depot: Supplies for the Conservative Revolution." Or if you don't like that one check out teapartyday.com, the first page I found upon googling "Taxed Enough Already".
The organizers of these rallies do not care about, or at least openly criticize, the irresponsible spending of Hank Paulson and George W. Bush, and are a huge detriment to the cause of fiscal conservatism.
And you didn't invite me to come with you...? ;)
I didn't mean to imply that I didn't think that they were overwhelmingly Republican. In fact, that is precisely why I was wary about going anyway.
Some people that I know who were actively involved in some of the tea parties are in fact very openly critical of Bush. But, I doubt that is the norm. You are spot-on that the GOP has lost much of its fiscal responsibility credibility due to Bush.
This is why I'm still a largely uncommitted backseat activist at this point.
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